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Why Would Any Parent Wish To Homeschool His Or Her Children Today?

Ask any parent involved with homeschooling why they made the decision to to homeschool their children and you will see that there are almost as many answers to this particular question as there are people undertaking homeschooling.

In some cases, parents decide to remove their children from the public schools because they see the public school system as being a failure, or as being positively harmful to their children. In other cases, parents decide to teach their children at home for religious reasons, or because they wish to instill certain values into their children which they believe are missing from the public school system. Whatever the reason for schooling children at home, there can be little doubt that the majority of parents opt for homeschooling because they believe that it is the best choice for their children.

For most parent there are two sides to to the homeschooling equation representing those things which it brings to the child and those negative things which it removes from the child's environment. Both peer pressure and bullying are rife in the public school system today and can place children under considerable pressure and, on occasions, even place them in danger. Teaching your children at home allows you far more control over precisely who your children come into contact with and how they are influenced.

As far as a child's academic development and growth are concerned there is no doubt that, in the majority of cases, homeschooling leads to superior results and this is seen in such things as homeschooled children winning the National Spelling Bees and the number of homeschooled children gaining degrees (frequently Master's degrees) at some of our finest universities and often at extremely young ages.

Of course many people hold that these children are merely gifted and that their achievements are due to their natural genius rather than to homeschooling. However, if this were to be the case then it is certainly true to say that we are blessed with an abundance of geniuses in our younger generation. The simple fact of the matter is that at the end of the day the numbers simply do not support this point of view.

The statistics, which are produced not merely by fans of homeschooling but by bodies such as the United States Department of Education, demonstrate clearly that homeschooled children do far better than their publicly schooled peers with homeschooled children a grade ahead by the age of 12 and a staggering four grades ahead by the time they get to the equivalent of the 8th grade.

Although many people believe that homeschooling is a quite modern phenomenon it has in fact been around for many hundreds of years and is a tried and tested system which has certainly stood the test of time. Homeschooling has of course changed considerably over the years and much of the philosophy underlying homeschooling nowadays comes from the work of advocates of the system during the 1960s.

Homeschooling is without doubt not an easy choice and is extremely hard work for the majority of parents, particularly during the early stages, but there can be no doubt that it works and the rewards for both children and parents make it well worth the effort.

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